This is an excellent, must read, authoritative article of clarification and insight. It is a powerful rebuttal to an attack by contemporary collectivists and proponents of centralized statist government action and control during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the author uses the term “liberalism,” he is describing “the signature philosophy of Western Civilization,” the idea of individual liberty, natural inalienable rights, limiting government, free markets and private property, freedom of speech and press, freedom of association and religion, and free trade and international commerce. Today this political philosophy is described as “classical liberalism, real liberalism, or libertarianism.” It is NOT the … Continue reading Liberalism Was Born and Grew During Centuries of Pandemics